Bell Ringer: Model Sentence

Look at the following sentence from the text (lines 15-24):

Then it would break, coalesce through a kind of kaleidoscopic whirl like a child's toy, into a pattwhich a design almost beautiful, as if an inspired choreographer had drilled a willing and patient and hardworking troupe of dancers- a pattern, design which was trying to tell him something, say something to him urgent and important and true in that second before, already bulging with the motion and the speed, it began to disintegrate and dissolve.

A few terms:
Polysyndeton- Link to more examples
Asyndeton

Remember the way you analyzed the sentence in The Awakening? With a partner, do that with this sentence.
  • Compound, complex, or compound-complex?
  • Syntactic features
  • Reasons for punctuation
  • Figurative language
  • Overall effect in the context of the piece

Reading the Anchor Text

Text: "An Innocent at Rinkside" by William Faulknerexternal image vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document.png text- faulkner innocent at rinkside.docx
Define all of the "Words to Know"
Read the article and annotate according to the steps on the handout. You may work with a partner.
external image vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document.png faulkner mc- an innocent at rinkside.docx

Multiple Choice Quiz

Answer the questions from this released AP passage.

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